Experimentation with Keyboards
I fell in love with swipe-style keyboards on my iPhone; they are fast for word insertion…most of the time. But they fall back to hunt-and-peck when you need to enter punctuation. I had some ideas to bring the 'touch' back to 'touch typing'. I started by building a prototype to collect data.
And yes, it looked a bit like blood, so I changed it to blue after a while.
This research showed that the biggest problem was often not the words—but deleting mistakes, editing and adding punctuation—for which I invented some solutions.
Prototypes
Swipe-up-to-delete gesture. Unlike a backspace key, this doesn't require visual attention.
Jog-wheel, invoked by a circular gesture on keyboard.
A swipe-down enters punctuation mode, for drawing (rather than finding) characters.
User Education screens
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